My pastor had another sermon which struck a chord as very applicable to the Sons of Confederate Veterans Charge. We are to defend the Confederate soldier's good name and guard his history. The sermon was around 2 Kings 1:2-17 where Elijah was beckoned by King Ahaziah as having foretold his death for turning from God to consult with a god Baal-Zebub regarding recovery from his injuries.
The sermon asked, “Where do you go for the truth?” Over the past decade, the American public has
learned not to trust the main stream media as they have proven to be agenda
driven political puppets. Fortune
recently reported that half of Americans believe the media intentionally
deceive their viewers (https://fortune.com/2023/02/15/trust-in-media-low-misinform-mislead-biased-republicans-democrats-poll-gallup/). Gallup surveys showed only 34% of respondents
trusted the media (https://news.gallup.com/poll/403166/americans-trust-media-remains-near-record-low.aspx
). Meanwhile, trust in the public
education system is plummeting with the attempt to indoctrinate children with
Critical Race Theories and LGBQT+ agendas including requiring non-binary
pronouns and sexualized elementary books in classrooms. It is abundantly clear that the public
school system has failed the American public and it began long ago with the
patriotic revisionism of our history books.
Confederate General Patrick Cleburne stated, “Surrender means that the
history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth
will be trained by Northern school teachers; learn from Northern school books
THEIR version of the war and taught to regard our gallant dead as traitors and
our maimed veterans as fit subjects of derision.” Indeed, it should be noted that the United
States has never fought on the wrong side of any war, according to your
children’s history books. Just don’t
follow the money.
So when confronted with the uneducated bias of those who
learned their history from these Northern school books and teachers, “How do
you react?” We are beseeched to do or
duty and ensure that our children are taught true history. We are in a struggle to counter the modern
narrative of white privilege with our children even when the reality of
affirmative action DE&I admissions, hiring, and promotions is an obvious
proof of exception. BLM activists seek
to instill a Critical Race Theory curriculum in highs schools and colleges to
revise history to suit their racist agenda.
Many are turning to home schooling and many more to private schools for
their children’s education. Our camp is
active on social media but on those platforms, there are many who seek to
instigate inflammatory attacks and besmirch the honor of our Confederate
ancestors. It is imperative that we take
the offensive and the high road and consistently reiterate the truth of the
Cause for which they fought, the real reasons for secession and the War for
Southern Independence in debate which we hope will inform and persuade and
affect our very communities even in legislation.
“Do you want to know the truth?” The common derogatory insults spewed at us
include our apparent defense of treasonous enslavers which they maintain proves
our racist white supremacist bigotry.
These Twitter and Facebook historians possess unparalleled confirmation
bias, looking for evidence and substantiation only to support what they already
believe and were indoctrinated. They attempt to impose their woke presentism on
us by ignoring or worse being ignorant of the pervasive racism of their heroes
Lincoln and Sherman despite quotations cited supporting their own 19th
century views of white supremacy. They
ignore historical facts of the Causes of the Southern states’ secession and
struggle for an independent Confederate States of America, the history of New
England states’ secession movements, the
Morrill Tariff, Lincoln’s socialist ambitions to redistribute wealth to finance
Northern industrialization and railroads, the Corwin Amendment, Lincoln’s first
inaugural address stating he had no right or inclination to interfere with
Southern institutions, the rejection of the Confederate’s Peace Delegation, the
Emancipation Proclamation issued as a war measure which freed no slaves in any
northern held states or territories, the
admission of West Virginia to the Union as a slave state, Lincoln’s attempts at
recolonization of blacks to Africa and South America, the unconstitutional acts
of Lincoln including the invasion of what he viewed to be states in rebellion
and the suspension of habeas corpus, the war crimes perpetuated on the Southern
populace and, the inalienable right of self-determination guaranteed by our
very own Declaration of Independence. Grant
had the slaves, not Lee. New Jersey had
the slaves after Texas’ Juneteenth. And
more and more inconvenient truths.
“Truth is truth”…whether you believe it or not. Sometimes truth is ugly or
uncomfortable. There are no SCV members
espousing a return to indentured servitude but, we shouldn’t deny the existence
of the institution of slavery from which many Northern as well as Southern
industries and families benefitted in the first two centuries of our nations
founding and existence. Property rights
were constitutionally protected and Supreme Court rulings of the day reinforced
those and fugitive slave laws. But
not-so-righteous abolitionists sought not to free slaves to empower them with
equality and suffrage but as they implemented Northern Jim Crow laws forbidding
them to reside in Northern states, prevent the spread of slavery to newly
opened western territories, and encouraging freedmen recolonization, simply to
instigate domestic violent uprisings and cause untenable poverty and
cohabitation in the Southern states. “Love
suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is
not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked,
thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;” – 1
Corinthians 13:4-6 (NKJV) “And you shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” – John 8:32 (NKJV) Seek the truth and proclaim it.
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